Robert Plant rolled out dates this morning for his inaugural American tour with his new band Saving Grace. They first played live last year opening for Fairport Convention at tiny venues across England, and this May, they’ll hit U.S. theaters like Town Hall in New York City and Lincoln Theater …
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The Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny became a star thanks to a torrent of singles: He earned more than two-dozen hits, including billion-view smashes like “Te Boté” and “Mayores,” before he even bothered to release a full-length. That thoroughly modern path to streaming ubiquity made an album seem like an …
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Some things just go together: peanut butter and jelly, wine and cheese, and John Mulaney and Saturday Night Live. While noting in the monologue that he means “a lot to a small group of people,” those people are all huge SNL fans. A host can’t automatically make a show good, …
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It turns out Lucinda Williams was just getting started when the veteran singer-songwriter rolled out “Man Without a Soul,” the first missive from her upcoming album Good Souls Better Angels. That roiling, simmering track, the first new song she’d unveiled in four years, clearly took aim at the current White …
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You know those days when you step out the door and it feels like the humidity has slapped you across the face, just in case there was any doubt how hot it was outside? That’s exactly how the quirkiness of AMC‘s new series Dispatches From Elsewhere hits you. From the …
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Electronic producer duo Disclosure dropped “Expressing What Matters” Wednesday, a groovy house number that samples one of blue-eyed soul’s most notable singles. “This track samples the legendary song ‘Lowdown’ by Boz Scaggs,” Disclosure said in a statement. “We really wanted to try to focus in on those wonderful backing vocals …
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On February 14th, 1970, the Who, in their post-Tommy prime, played a concert at the University of Leeds that engineer Bob Pridden captured on an eight-track recorder – it would form the basis for Live at Leeds, one of the most powerful live albums ever made. On the new episode …
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Disclosure have returned with a disco and soul-inspired new song “Ecstasy.” “Ecstasy” features a sample of Aquarian Dream’s “Fantasy,” off the 1978 soul album of the same name. The throbbing house track is mostly an instrumental dance song with singer Gloria Jone’s throat-y belt of the titular refrain peppered throughout. …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Cigars (and the word cigar itself) date back to the Mayan civilization, and were smoked in different forms by the indigenous peoples of Central America and the Caribbean …
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Puerto Rican producerTainy links up with Fifth Harmony alumna Lauren Jauregui and Spanish rapper C. Tangana in the splendid new track, “Nada.” It’s the latest single off Tainy’s upcoming EP, The Kids That Grew Up on Reggaeton: Neon Tapes, due out March 13th. In the Elliott Muscat-directed video, the three …
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